[29/December/2009]

SANA'A, Dec. 29 (Saba) - Security systems have captured 183 Ethiopian citizens, including 13 women and a child, who have entered the country illegally, according to Interior Ministry.

The security systems said that the Ethiopians were captured in the coasts of Abyan and Hajjah provinces in two separated journeys.

The sources added that about 16 Ethiopian sneakers have been captured in Harad area in Hajjah provinces, pointing out nearly 35 Somali refugees have reached Yemeni lands in the same boat from the Horn of Africa.

Procedures have been taken to send 167 Ethiopians to a camp in Ahwar area of Abyan province .

About 16 refugees have been sent to the competent authorities to take the required legal procedures against them.

The Yemeni authorities expressed concerns of the incessant flow of the Ethiopians to the Yemeni coasts which brings on Yemen more economic burden .

MD/AM

Saba